Recherche translationnelle en santé,
technologie pour la santé et recherche clinique
Axis 3 : Neurobiomechanics / Topic 2
The role of rhythm in motor learning and rehabilitation for children with motor disorders.
This axis was initiated in pediatric patients characterized by motor disorders or motor difficulties. Through a dance intervention program, the aim was in particular to study the effects of multisensory rhythmic stimulation on motor functions and activities (balance and walking) and cognitive functions (attention and rhythmic production) in adolescents having cerebral palsy. The results obtained encourage the implementation of rehabilitation protocols focused on multisensory rhythmic synchronization in people with motor or cognitive disorders.
From a more global perspective, they lead us to explore the multidimensional benefits (cognitive, motor, psychosocial, etc.) of interventions involving rhythmic multisensory stimulation in typical and atypical development and in terms of rehabilitation for people with neurodegenerative or neurodevelopmental disorders.
Current projects
Procedural Learning Capacity Assessment – PhD student : Elodie MARTIN, Director : Jessica TALLET, Co-director : David AMARANTINI.
The procedural learning of perceptual-motor skills is at the heart of psychomotor rehabilitation. It aims to improve the autonomy of the patient and his adaptation to his environment. However, we know that this learning can be altered in a certain number of pathologies and in particular in neurodegenerative pathologies (Doyon and Benali, 2005) or neurodevelopmental disorders (Nicolson and Fawcett, 2007). There are a large number of studies on this subject, which use laboratory tasks to measure two major types of learning: motor sequence learning and visuomotor adaptation (Doyon and Benali, 2005). However, we do not know to what extent these tasks reflect everyday learning. In addition, to date, there is no clinical tool allowing the rehabilitation therapist to measure the procedural learning capacities of patients before starting rehabilitation. This thesis work fills this gap by offering an analysis of the literature and the creation of a tool testing perceptual-motor procedural learning.
Question :
How to measure perceptual-motor learning in people with neurodegenerative or neurodevelopmental pathologies?
Goals :
- Make a state of the art of scientific work on procedural learning in neurodegenerative diseases and neurodevelopmental disorders
- Create an assessment tool for perceptual-motor procedural learning
- Validate this tool on an adult population with or without developmental coordination disorder (CDD).
